In Perspective

Thavamai Thavamirundu

Thanks to Cheran,.....let me tell it upfront.....It was and is a scintillating experience to watch this movie and write about it as well. If Autograph was any indication of Cheran maturing...this is proof that he is one of the best movie makers in the business in Tamil Nadu....or better known as Kollywood......more because he does films that he loves doing....and gets critical acclaim for his movies...plus gets the return in terms of the success of the movie with the masses....this last one is the most elusive, missing link for almost all directors...which Cheran seems to be making with a child's ease...atleast in his last two movies.....both have been declared as commercial successes now...

Onto the movie.....real good selection for the storyline....not delved into such detail..in movies..prior to this. And I read in a magazine that Cheran, briefed Rajkiran the story and said, if and only if you are ready to don the hero's role would I be interested in making this film, else would take up some other storyline for a film. Such was the trust that the director had in Muthiah's character, for which he firmly believed, only Rajkiran would do justice.

Yes, you guessed it right...Rajkiran is delightful, refreshing and picture perfect for the role...all at once...it is so natural for him to do this role....he can rest assured that he had donned a life-time role for the better. It would take a political imbroglio or a geographical bias to stop him from getting the national award for his role in TT.

Getting down to the hero of the film, the storyline and the deft handling of the story with apt screenplay and direction, one cannot stop admiring the director for his skill. The best part is that.. the director has not succumbed to the guile of making a screenplay out of the story line, rather he has allowed the story to take center-stage and made the screenplay an ally for the story, which is rather unusual in the grist of the mill stuff, prevalent at present which mainly harps on fast screenplay. He has never cared to bring in startling twists at interval time, another one just before the climax or any stuff of that sort, which is the bane of modern day film makers.

Each character in the film does exactly what it has been created for.......not doing an inch extra...that's where the movie scores. Be it Sathyapriya as the courteous daughter-in-law or Saranya as the caring, understanding house wive, Cheran as the repenting son, or Senthil as the elder son, wow..the characters have not been created, rather just picked out straight from any tamil family you can choose. This is not a surprise considering what Cheran says about his subjects.....” I dont create stories...I search for stories from our tamilian life styles”...Hatz offff to Cheran for his bold foray with such subjects......

One more interesting filmi stuff I saw in the movie....If I am right, is the first for any tamil film. It goes like this:
We are used to seeing flash-back narrations in BLACK-AND-WHITE, while the current narration in COLOUR, just to make the needed difference for the viewer. This movie made this difference with a difference..yes..you are reading it right. BLACK-AND-WHITE scenes are those which are not very happy even though they happen at present, while scenes in COLOUR are those, which you can associate with bright moments in the movie...which I thought was new, very relevant and worth mentioning... Good work...TT team.. !!!

Gosh,....It looks like more of a Cheran's appraisal than the review of the movie Thavamai Thavamirundhu... That must be telling you in summary about the movie...It is an out-and-out a cheran show.... Fantastic....!!!!

posted by Rajesh @ 1:33 AM